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The International Space Station, photographed in 2021. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — Even as NASA and its partners on the International Space Station shift to commercial space stations, NASA’s former deputy administrator believes there will still be a role for multilateral coordination of work on those stations. Speaking at a Royal…

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society sits down with host David Ariosto. The conversation starts with Bill’s journey but quickly pivots to the proposed science budget cuts at NASA. In this conversation, Bill Nye reflects on the current state of space exploration,…

L3Harris announced a $125 million expansion at its space manufacturing site in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Credit: L3Harris WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s Golden Dome initiative is creating new alliances and prompting industrial expansions in the defense sector as companies position themselves for roles in the ambitious missile defense program. L3Harris…

This is a customer submitted press release. Submit your press release. A key player in the European DeepTech market and a leading Polish space technology company, Creotech Instruments S.A., has signed the largest contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to date — a landmark €52 million agreement for the…

Credit: U.S. Space Force WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force on April 17 released its most explicit blueprint yet for how it plans to defend American satellites — and, if necessary, take aim at enemy space systems — in the event of conflict. The document, titled “Space Warfighting: A Framework…

Engineers prepare the Q4S subassembly build for environmental tests. Credit: Boeing TAMPA, Fla. — Boeing announced April 16 it has built the ground-based twin for a mission aiming to demonstrate quantum networking in space, marking a key milestone ahead of launching a small satellite called Q4S next year.​ In partnership…

Rocket Lab’s exhibit at the 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Credit; Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is changing how it evaluates risk for launch missions, using tiered mission assurance standards that could expand opportunities for newer commercial providers.  Under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase…

From pixel-perfect platformers to deep, sprawling RPGs, my Wednesday bargain bin is loaded with gold. Across many storefronts, publishers are slashing RRPs like a Buster Sword through butter, and there’s never been a better excuse to finally tackle that backlog (or cram a few more in). This Day in Gaming…

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is just a couple of days away from returning to Earth on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft after a seven-month stay at the International Space Station, making it the perfect time to revisit his astonishing account of his first Soyuz homecoming in 2003. In the article, Pettit…

Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, private companies, and academic institutions are developing the first space-based quantum sensor for measuring gravity. Supported by NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), this mission will mark a first for quantum sensing and will pave the way for groundbreaking observations of…